ALEX BRUMMER: Big battalion investors do nation a huge disservice when they sell engineering and aerospace crown jewels to leveraged financial buyers with no strategic vision The debt-fuelled model at Melrose was unsuited to an engineering enterprise like GKN It may be frustrating for Melrose’s already-rich top team that they might not achieve the supercharged … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Defuse the car loan timebomb or risk a £76bn explosion By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 21 July 2020 | Updated: 23:12 BST, 21 July 2020 What’s not to love about car finance? For a modest deposit and a tenner a day, you can drop into almost any dealership … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Europe’s feeble bail-out will not be enough to head off large scale unemployment By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:42 BST, 21 July 2020 | Updated: 23:14 BST, 21 July 2020 The longest summit in the European Union’s history finally has delivered a result. The £680billion Covid-19 rescue package breaks new ground. … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Unlike Public Health England, UK live sciences have risen to the challenge of Covid-19 By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 20 July 2020 The way in which British life sciences have risen to the challenge of Covid-19 is hugely exciting and an … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: If the post-Brexit Stock Exchange is to have any credibility, it must battle to bring Arm float back to London By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:52 BST, 19 July 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 19 July 2020 When Cambridge-based smart-chip maker Arm Holdings was sold to Japan’s Softbank in July … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: If our city centres remain ghost towns it will be a social disaster as well as an economic one Walk across the City’s financial district and it is a ghost town Boris Johnson quite understandably has urged people to go back to their offices By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:54 … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banks have baulked at the idea of sharing branches, but now its time has come By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 21:56 BST, 18 July 2020 Slowly, life is returning to our high streets. It won’t be quite the same as it was … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Support Britain’s entrepreneurs and boost funding for R&D to tackle the horrific cost of Covid By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 17 July 2020 | Updated: 22:08 BST, 17 July 2020 The cost of Covid-19 is horrifying: Government fund raising in the 2019-20 fiscal year of more than £500billion, … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Treasury turns to the people for help by relaxing the rules for National Savings & Investments By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 16 July 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 16 July 2020 A great mystery of the financial universe is why HM Treasury has not made more effort down … Read more
Close to where I live in south-west London a top City trader has set up his lockdown office in his vast suburban home with a bank of trading screens as his window on the world. Across town at Canary Wharf just 10,000 workers have returned to the gleaming towers occupied by the elite of world … Read more